Collectible from Turtleman Used Books

First edition, first printing. No dust jacket. Tan fabric covered boards with red print on front and spine. Wear at the corners and at the top and bottom of the spine. Four illustrations. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Owner's bookplate on the front free end paper. A rare book. … Read more about this item

What remains of the dust jacket has been glued onto the front free endpaper (photo #3). Blue fabric cover shows very little wear. Gilt print and decoration on the spine. Owner's bookplate inside the front cover. The pages are clean, tight and intact, with mild age-related toning. For a book nearing 90 years old, this copy is in great condition.… Read more about this item

No dust jacket. Reddish-brown fabric covered boards show light wear, with gilt print on the front and spine. Spine is a little faded and has a drop of paint. The deckle-edged pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Owner's bookplate inside the front cover. A split after the front endpaper shows the binding fabric (see photo #4.) A scarce book.

No dust jacket. Olive drab fabric with gilt and blue decoration and print on front and spine. For a book that is 75 years old, the wear is minimal. A couple of tiny stains on the cover and a couple more on the pages within. The deckle-edged pages are tight and intact, with the expected age toning. Owner's bookplate inside… Read more about this item

Book shows its age. The brown fabric covered boards with black print on the front and spine has board showing through at three corners and is quite worn at the top of the spine (see photo #2). Hinge splits have occurred at the front and rear endpapers, with the front free endpaper being lost (see photos #3 and 4). The… Read more about this item

First edition. No dust jacket. Tan fabric covered boards show mild wear at the corners. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Owner's name and infomation inside the front cover.

No dust jacket. Generally in good shape, although there are splits after the endpapers, front and rear, showing the binding fabric (front split shown in photo #6). Green fabric boards show mild wear at the corners. Front and back decorated with embossed designs. Has a gilt signature on the front and gilt print and decoration on the spine. The pages… Read more about this item

Mild wear around the edges of the cover. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with a crease on the lower right of the title page. This is a museum book published in conjunction with a tour of van Gogh's works from the Netherlands in 1958-59, visiting museums in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle. Now… Read more about this item

No dust jacket. Maroon fabric covered boards, showing wear at the corners (boards peeking out) and at the top and bottom of the spine. The pages are generally clean and tight, with just a little bit of penciled marginalia ending after a handful of pages. Quite a bit of writing on the front endpaper, including the owner's name, with a… Read more about this item

No dust jacket. Very little wear. Brown fabric covered boards with navy blue and green text and decoration stamped on the front cover and the spine. Fabric is still intact over the corners and there is just the slightest crimping at the head and tail of the spine. Darkened in a few places on the exterior… Read more about this item

Stated first edition. Green fabric covered boards show some wear at the head and tail of the spine, yet still intact at the corners. The dust jacket is badly worn and in two pieces. It has been folded inside the book for untold decades. Also within the book is a clipping of an interview with the… Read more about this item

A US. Army manual from the time of WWII. Pretty sure it is no longer state of the art, but could fit in with a military collector's stuff. Seems to be rather rare, too. It does show some wear befitting its age, but not too much. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked.

Very little wear. No dust jacket. Illustrated with photos and drawings, in black and white and color. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Includes a card from the president of the Chrysler Corporation (photo #3). A scarce book.

First American edition, first printing. Complete number line. Very little wear, almost like new. The dust jacket has some minor crimping along the top edge and there is a crease on the half title page. A collection of ten short science fictions stories, translated from the original Chinese. This is a scarce and highly valued… Read more about this item

Green fabric cover shows substantial wear, with two corners showing the boards and wear at the head and tail of the spine. The fabric is also splitting along the lower rear edge of the spine (see photo #4). The front cover has gilt print and an embossed profile of Sir Richard. The print on the spine has lost all the… Read more about this item

A pocket sized book with every cocktail you'd need to know, as of 1962. Sorry, no Appletinis. Red cover showing the gentle wear of the past 60+ years. Still solidly bound after all these years.

Paper covered boards, worn through at three of the four corners. Additional wear at the top of the spine. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Two owner's names on the front endpaper. A quite amusing book on people in bed. Depression-era humor at its best. This is quite the rare book, one that… Read more about this item

Little wear. A thin book for the young reader. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Rather scarce.

A rather rare cookbook from Hawai'i. The book is still in good shape, the dust jacket, not so much. The beginnings of foxing showing on the page edges. Otherwise, the pages are clean and tight. The red fabric covered boards show little wear. As you can see from the photos, the jacket (price clipped) has suffered greatly and probably should… Read more about this item

First edition. Very little wear to the book or dust jacket. Not just a picture book, there are short essays on each of the exhibits shown within. As a museum book, there are not too many of these and likely won't be any reprints. Contains about 300 illustrations, most in full color. A rather scarce… Read more about this item